Babbitting frame



April 12, 1927. 1,624,605 v c. J. KUSCHEL BABBITTING FRAME Filed May1926 2 Sheets-Sheet l Patented Apr, 12, 1927 barren CLEMENS JOHNKUSOI-IEL, OF BROWN VALLEY, MTNNESOTA.

BABBITTING FRAME.

Application filed May 24, 1926. Serial No. 111,339.

This invention aims to provide novel means whereby a shaft and a wheelmaybe held in concentric relation with respect to each other while ababbitt bearing is being poured into the hub of the wheel.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and toenhance the utility of devices of that type to which the inventionappertains.

lVith the above and other objects in View which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within thescope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

In the drawings Figure 1 is an elevation;

Figure 2 is an elevation wherein the de vice is viewed at right angle tothe showing of Figure 1, parts being in section;

Figure 3'is a section on the line 3-3 of Figure 1; I V

Figure 4 is a top plan;

Figure 5 is a perspective View showing one of the clamps. 1

The device includes a frame embodying a base plate 1 and a standard 2,the standard preferably being an angle member supplied at its lower endwith horizontal feet 3 C011? nected by bolts and wing nuts 4 with thebase plate 1. The standard 2 may be described, generally, as beingtrough-shaped.

Intermediate its ends, the standard 2 is supplied with a horizontalloop-shaped bracket connected at one end to the bracket and outstandinglaterally with respect to the bracket, as shown best in Figure 3, the

bracket being marked by the numeral 5. At:

its outer end, the bracket 5 has a tubular r bearing 6. A screw 7 isthreaded into the bearing 6 and is provided at its outer end with acrank or the like, designated by the numeral 8'. The inner end of thescrew 7 is mounted to rotate in a foot 9. The screw 7 constitutes aclamping means cooperating with the trough shaped standard 2, andcarried by the standard, at a ate the ends of the standar At its upperend, the standard 2 is supplied with any desired number of'radial arms10,

three of these arms being shown. The arms 10. are disposed horizontally.Holders are adjustable longitudinally of the arms 10, each holderincluding a block 11 provided with an off-set seat 12 in which the loweredge of the arm is received, hook bolts or other securing elements beingmounted in placed in the trough-shaped standard 2 and is held in thestandard by advancingthe screw 7 until the foot 9. bears against theshaft 16 and clamps the shaft in the standard. A wheel 17 is placed onthe arms 10 of the standard 2 and is centered properly with respect tothe shaft 16, the shaft extending through the hub 18 of the wheel. ,Ifnecessary, spacers 19 may be placed about the shaft 16, between thelower end of the hub 18 and the upper end of the standard 2, so

as to close the lower end of the hole 20 in thehub 18, thereby toprevent thebabbitt from running out of the hole in the hub when thebabbitt is poured. The blocks 11 are slid along the arms 10 during thecentering of the wheel 17, with respect to the shaft 16, the hook bolts14 being engaged with point intermedithe upper edge of the rim of thewheel 17.

When the wheel is in the proper place, the wing nuts are tightened up,and the wheel 17 is pulled down tightly upon the arms 10, the spacers 19being compressed, and a good closure being effected at the lower end ofthe hole in the hub 18 of the wheel 17. When the'parts are arranged asabove described, the babbitt may be poured into the hole 20 around thehub 18 and, thus, a bearing will befashioned in the hub 20, about theshaft 16.

WVhat is claimed is 1. In a'device of the class described, a standardhaving transverse arms, holders adjustable on the arms in a directionparallel to the axis of the standard and in a direction at right anglesto the axis of the standard, and a clamping means cooperating With thestandard intermediate the ends of the standard. v

2-111 .a device of the olass descr ibe'cl, a standard having transversearms lneans for holding a shaft on the. standard, and means adjustablealong the arms for holding a Wheel on the arms in centered relation tothe shaft.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixedmy signa ture.

CLEMENS JOHN KUSCHEL

